multiflora
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of multiflora
1820–30; < New Latin, a typical specific epithet of flowering plants; see multiflora rose
Example Sentences
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Happy memories included working alongside his sister to bushwhack out planting spaces from the dark thicket of invasive autumn olive, multiflora rose and Oriental bittersweet, connecting those spaces with narrow tunnels hacked from the underbrush.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 23, 2022
Instead, we see a plague of English ivy, winter creeper, vinca, honeysuckle vine, lesser celandine and multiflora rose.
From Washington Post • Mar. 24, 2022
Rose rosette disease, a naturally occurring virus, is spread by a tiny, windblown mite that has used the invasive multiflora rose as a host to expand into an increasing territory.
From New York Times • Feb. 17, 2021
Several already are widespread throughout the state, such as burning bush, glossy buckthorn, multiflora rose, and Japanese barberry.
From Washington Times • Mar. 20, 2017
Not many years ago, came to us three natives of Japan, Rosa wichuraiana, Rosa multiflora and Rosa rugosa.
From Making a Rose Garden by Saylor, Henry H. (Henry Hodgman)
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